Well, obviously Zorn's Masada String Trio (Mark Feldman, violin, Erik Freidlander, cello, and Greg Cohen, bass), plus the Bar Khokba Sextet, which adds guitar, drums, and percussion to the trio. Their recordings are sublime.
Amsterdam String Trio (Maurice Horsthuis, viola, Ernst Reisjeger, cello, Ernst Glerum, bass), plus various other projects involving Reisjeger - his solo CD on Winter & Winter (Colla Parte Versioni Per Violoncello Solo) was very good.
There's also a great string piece in one of the ICP Orchestra's Bospaadje Konijnehol CDs (I forget if it's 1 or 2), with Reisjeger and Tristan Honsinger on cellos. Honsinger also shows up as part of a five-cello contingent in Butch Morris's Conduction 23. That's also pretty wild stuff.
Arcado String Trio (Mark Feldman, violin, Hank Roberts - and later Reisjeger - cello, Mark Dresser, bass). Feldman's "Music for Violin Alone" and "Music for Violin and Piano" with Sylvie Courvoisier are also must-haves - the latter is really remarkable.
Yuko Fujiyama (piano), Feldman (violin), and Tomas Ulrich (cello) also produce wonderful avant chamber jazz on Fujiyama's "Tag" CD. And more good violin-piano stuff from Mat Manari and Matt Shipp on various recordings.
Check out the groups Friedlander has lead also - Chimera and Topaz.
Another great avant cellist is Vancouver's own Peggy Lee. She's got a beautiful cello-guitar duo CD with Carlos Zingaro on hatOLOGY ("Under Western Skies") and and leads or plays on several excellent CDs on the Spool label.
This is what I can quickly think of off the top of my head (without having my collection at hand). There's more...
David
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Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 12:54:14 -0400
From: wlt4@mindspring.com
Subject: new Knitting Factory albums
With all the discussion about the Knit, thought I'd point out some new and possibly unexpected releases: Charles Gayle's "Jazz Solo Piano" (which I was quite surprised to like, we'll see if it holds up to repeated hearings), Ori Kaplan Percussion Ensemble (w/Ibarra) "Gongol" and Ballin' the Jack "The Big Head." And maybe the new Shimmy-Disc counts, it's currently dominating my player: "No Knowledge of Music Required" by the Du-Tels (Peter Stampfel & Gary Lucas).
Lang
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Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 13:24:08 EDT
From: Samerivertwice@aol.com
Subject: Re: Avant Strings
Carol Emanuel's "Top of Trees" is quite nice too.
Tom
In a message dated 4/13/01 12:19:39 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
ssmith36@sprynet.com writes:
> Close - Arcado's bassist was Mark Dresser. Also, after Roberts left there
> was a disc on Avant with Ernst Reijseger. Still later, Eyvind Kang
replaced
> Mark Feldman; I don't think that lineup recorded. But it's a great
> recommendation.
>
> Here's another: IST (bassist Simon Fell, cellist Mark Wastell, harpist
> Rhodri Davies), who have a disc called 'Ghost Notes' on Fell's label,
> Bruce's Fingers. Four trio improvs, plus compositions by Fell, Wastell,
> Phil Durrant, and some other contemporary composers.
>
> Steve Smith
> ssmith36@sprynet.com
> NP - Mark Wastell/Will Gaines/Rhodri Davies, "MW/WG/RD," 'Company in
> Marseilles' (Incus)
>
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> [mailto:owner-zorn-list@lists.xmission.com]On Behalf Of Skip Heller
